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“People Don’t Want Philosophical Marcus Fenix”

7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Uncharted has been described as “the best game ever made about a dude in a T-shirt”. That’s a pretty fair description! Josh Scherr, lead cinematics animator for developer Naughty Dog, says the goal was to make Nathan Drake and regular dude, but one who was fully fleshed out and believable. Scherr says this about characterisation in video games, mentioning Epic’s Gears of War: More »

Bender Excited About Gears Of War 2 (Now With Added Brumak)

3:20PM Luke Plunkett | John DiMaggio is the voice of Bender. He’s also the voice of Marcus Fenix, which is the more likely reason IGN were interviewing him, hoping no doubt that – as is becoming common these says – as a voice actor he’d spill the kind of games-related beans a developer wouldn’t dare. DiMaggio didn’t disappoint. He reveals that, like the PC version of the original, players will face off against a Brumak in Gears 2. He also says Franklin will be returning, then goes and loses himself with excitement: Oh man, dude – there’s new weapons, new beasts, there’s a couple of new characters, and it’s just badass. Yes, that’s wonderful, but is there story this time, John? There just might be. It looks cool as s—. The storylines are really cool and the relationships of the guys in the game – the sequences that explain things that are going on – they’re a lot deeper. Excellent! Marcus Fenix Talks Gears of War 2 [IGN] More »

Custom Marcus Fenix Figure Is Great (And Jaundiced)

10:30PM Kotaku US Edition | Some official Gears figures are on the way from toymakers NECA, but some people just cannot wait that long. Soulbrother73 is one of them, so he went ahead and forged this custom Marcus Fenix figure, complete with rifle, grenade and Jack the robot. The detail is fantastic, all the way down to Fenix’s skin, realistically jaundiced by his years of hard drinking and a poor, post-apocalyptic diet. xbox 360 gears of war customs macus fenix and jack [Figures.com, thanks John!] More »